# Baykal Point

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**Baykal Point** (, ‘Nos Baykal’ \'nos bay-'kal\) is the mostly ice-covered rocky point projecting 800 m south-southwestwards into [Lanusse Bay](/source/Lanusse_Bay) on the west coast of [Brabant Island](/source/Brabant_Island) in the [Palmer Archipelago](/source/Palmer_Archipelago), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica).

The point is named after the settlements of [Baykal](/source/Baykal,_Bulgaria) in Northern and [Baykalsko](/source/Baykalsko) in Western Bulgaria.

## Location

Baykal Point is located at [64°12′50″S 62°29′06″W](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=64_12_50_S_62_29_06_W), which is 2.63 km east-southeast of [Driencourt Point](/source/Driencourt_Point), 6.55 km northwest of [Mount Parry](/source/Mount_Parry) and 5.4 km north-northeast of [Minot Point](/source/Minot_Point). British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

## Maps

- [Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).](http://www.add.scar.org) Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
- [British Antarctic Territory.](https://web.archive.org/web/20141209160123/https://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=3217) Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
- [Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.](https://web.archive.org/web/20170703122914/https://data.aad.gov.au/database/mapcat/british/brabant_argentine_is_BAS_map13489.jpg) Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

## References

- [Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.](http://apcbg.org/gazet-bg.pdf) [Antarctic Place-names Commission](/source/Antarctic_Place-names_Commission). (details in Bulgarian, [basic data](http://apcbg.org/gazet.pdf) in English)
- [Baykal Point.](https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=137972) SCAR [Composite Antarctic Gazetteer](/source/Composite_Antarctic_Gazetteer).

## External links

- [Baykal Point.](https://copernix.io/#?where=-62.48751054763795,-64.21272218004357,16&?query=&?map_type=hybrid) Copernix satellite image

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